Recent content by Xalion

:), it is all good. I could have been more clear. I wasn't trying to make general statements on the architectures - mainly just point out that Pascal does seem to be a great thing from my perspective. I tend to work on systems like Lightning. So "upgrade" really usually translates into "is...

Correct - it was most certainly application specific rather than a general statement about NVIDIA's hardware.

I checked to make sure and you were correct. The machines are currently using K40s, which are GK110s - not the original M2090s which were GF110s. The upgrade to M40s never happened because you were looking at a very small increase in SP (~5000GFLOPS to ~6500GFLOPS) and a rather significant...

Just speaking from the perspective of someone on the HPC side of things, this is very true. This is just my personal opinion and experience, but Pascal is the first GPU product for a while now to make me excited on the HPC side. Other processors have had some great theoretical specs but the...

I have a hard time believing that a lawsuit will go anywhere. I just went over the boxes my 2 970s came in, as well as their marketing material, and all reviews associated with them that I read. In all of those, the ROP count was mentioned in one table on AnandTech incorrectly (and has since...

The CE encounter is a much larger step up in difficulty from normal than VoG ever was. VoG hard was actually really straight forward. Bugs caused more difficulty than any other change. CE the level difference was intentional (and you should have known it was coming from Normal - it is...

I think this is off target here. Bungie was not trying to make the encounter be played the way they intended. They were trying to make it hard. In other words, they looked at ways the encounter could be made easy and added additional challenges. The Left strategy can still be used - it just...

It is probably the second most useful weapon in the game. If you don't have it, you should really move heaven and earth to buy it this week. It went 4 months without being sold last time. I bought 2 more this week (meaning I now have 3 new ones and 2 old ones) just so I wouldn't have to swap...

The problem with this statement is that we have a rather firm data point for which version people prefer. Everyone on Amazon has the choice between a system with and without Kinect - and we can see from the rankings that people are overwhelmingly choosing without Kinect. That is what the...

First zone when you zone into cosmodrome on patrol. The building in the middle where you go down to find the map in the second story mission (it is also connected to the 3 elite hive spawn). Note that the triggers now also include the Blade of Crota, so if you get bad timing you end up having...

Fatebringer is by far the single most used weapon in the raid for thralls from what I've seen. There is a reason most of the videos of people soloing the raid use it. Unlike a scout it is one of the few weapons you can fire from the hip at full speed and get headshots with. A single headshot...

I agree entirely that you should be playing a game because it is fun. I would also claim that there is a broken game mechanic in Destiny. I think that is why you get the reaction to people asking for shortcuts that we've seen here. Fun is subjective, but there are a several methods that...

The big difference between MMOs like WoW and Destiny is the time between gear resets. WoW has averaged about 2 years before they "reset" content such that new players can catch up easily. Other MMOs that I can think of have been between the 1 and 2 year mark. Destiny is every 3 months. The...

Just to explain the exact mechanics. The fireteam enters and starts the fight. When they force him to kneel down the first time, the host interrupts or disconnects his network connection (on the PS4 this was normally accomplished by unplugging the network cable - on the XBox one you could do...

Keep in mind that you digitally signed a ToS when you start playing the game that you would not intentionally exploit bugs and exploits when you agreed to play Destiny online. I can think of very few moral codes where lying would be considered morally correct even when not strictly illegal...